Dirt Brown #836539

About this color

#836539 is a medium-dark, moderately saturated brown. In OKLCH its lightness is 53%, its chroma 0.072 and its hue 76°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Dirt Brown. White text reads best on it, at 5.40:1.

Colors that go with Dirt Brown

Matches found by rotating Dirt Brown around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Dirt Brown

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Dirt Brown, closest first.

• Evergreen Floor
• Pinecone and Holly
• Evergreen Feast
• Candy Cane and Ribbon
• Cortado Counter
• Mango Descent
• Kyoto Steam
• Chalk Page

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Dirt Brown, with their ΔE distance.

• Cocoa #875F42 ΔE 0.024
• Dark Taupe #7F684E ΔE 0.025
• Dirt #8A6E45 ΔE 0.029
• Dull Brown #876E4B ΔE 0.030
• Grey Brown #7F7053 ΔE 0.036
• Sepia #985E2B ΔE 0.039
• Muddy Brown #886806 ΔE 0.040
• Raw Sienna #9A6200 ΔE 0.049

More about Dirt Brown

• Shades of brown
• What brown means

How to make Dirt Brown

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 1 part brown
• 1 part gray

Recipe result: #85643F, a difference of ΔE 0.010 from Dirt Brown. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make brown? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Dirt Brown in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Dirt Brown

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 600.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F7F5F2

   oklch(97.1% 0.005 78.3)

2. Step 100

   100

   #EDE9E3

   oklch(93.5% 0.009 78.3)

3. Step 200

   200

   #E0D8CC

   oklch(88.5% 0.018 78.2)

4. Step 300

   300

   #CDBEAA

   oklch(80.9% 0.032 75.2)

5. Step 400

   400

   #B49D7D

   oklch(70.8% 0.052 75.9)

6. Step 500

   500

   #A1845C

   oklch(63.1% 0.066 75.1)

7. Step 600

   600 (this color)

   #836539

   oklch(52.7% 0.072 75.7)

8. Step 700

   700

   #775B33

   oklch(49.1% 0.067 75)

9. Step 800

   800

   #614B2B

   oklch(42.8% 0.056 75.7)

10. Step 900

    900

    #4F3E27

    oklch(37.6% 0.043 74.3)

11. Step 950

    950

    #2E2517

    oklch(27.1% 0.028 78.2)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Dirt Brown with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.